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Years ago, techies had different phrases to describe the explosive growth of computing software and networking. The “Unix development model” became “the Internet development model”, as software was deployed first and made to work in successive patches and iterations. It was exciting times — a “killer app” could launch a technology, especially if it supported the “network effect” (it was useful even if only a few people were using it, and only became more useful as more people took it up).

It seems to me that those phrases fail to do justice to the effort and ecosystem that allowed technologies like the Internet to take off and continue on a growth curve for decades.

As Open Source Software (OSS) is increasingly important to commercial endeavours, and companies worry about becoming heavily dependent on something that becomes abandonware, I’d like to offer three things to look for in technology/systems if you want to see them take off and last beyond initial specs.

Recently, I had the opportunity to attend and speak at Interop ITX 2018, in Las Vegas. It was my first Interop — and an interesting opportunity to see more of the enterprise networking side of things. That’s a space that … Continue reading →

Today is the 4th anniversary of the World IPv6 Day, which most of us remember as a test drive that facilitated the “launching” of IPv6 a year later. Two fortunate felines in the UK may remember it as the … Continue reading →

Written by: Doc Searls and David Weinberger Hear, O Internet. It has been sixteen years since our previous communication. In that time the People of the Internet — you and me and all our friends of friends of friends, unto … Continue reading →

Contributed by Andy Newton It is said that the original purpose of the Internet was for military purposes; to reduce the number of green-screen terminals proliferating in the offices of DoD administrators or to allow researches to exchange data regarding … Continue reading →

Contributed by Konstantinos Komaitis “Firsts” are important – our first steps, our first kiss, our first job. For me, so was the first time I got online. It was 1998 and I was in Germany, where I would be … Continue reading →